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UrduAs the new year approaches, AADE suggests the following ways for people with diabetes to start the year healthy and stick with it.
Month: December 2019
“Utah Statement” sets a new course in antitrust policy
In October, Steinbaum and other leading antitrust scholars met at the U to draft a statement that sets out a vision for a new antitrust policy, with specific recommendations for lawmakers to return antitrust laws to their original purpose of deconcentrating power. It’s called the “Utah Statement.”
Engineering students to build human-carrying drone
Engineering students at South Dakota State University are designing a drone large enough to carry a human for their capstone senior design project through a nearly $80,000 grant from NASA.
Plan estructurado para remuneración de los médicos mediante salario solamente sirve como modelo de pago igualitario, descubre estudio de Mayo Clinic
En el campo de la medicina, el pago igualitario entre hombres y mujeres continúa siendo inestable, pues se ha demostrado que persisten las diferencias entre los sexos en cuanto a remuneración, incluso al considerar la experiencia, la productividad clínica, el rango académico y otros factores. Estas inequidades llevan a remuneraciones considerablemente menores durante toda la vida laboral, desgaste profesional y actitud negativa hacia el trabajo, aparte de efectos adversos para la profesión y la sociedad.
Trial Suggests Babies in Intensive Care Can be Better Protected From Parental Bacteria
For sick or prematurely born babies spending their first days of life in a hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), the soothing voice and gentle touch of a loving parent can have a tremendous impact toward a positive outcome — that is, unless mom or dad’s visit leaves the infant with something extra: a dangerous bacterial infection.
Why It Matters: Prescription for Disaster
Bacteria are becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics. A major cause is their overuse in both humans and animals. At the same time, a lack of financial incentives is setting back efforts to discover new classes of antibiotics. The problem is both global and local, and without new initiatives, many common medical conditions could become deadly once again.
Objective Subtle Cognitive Difficulties Predict Amyloid Accumulation and Neurodegeneration
Researchers report that accumulating amyloid protein occurred faster among persons deemed to have “objectively-defined subtle cognitive difficulties” (Obj-SCD) than among persons considered to be “cognitively normal,” offering a potential new early biomarker for Alzheimer’s disease.
Expert Alert: Keep exercising: New study finds it’s good for your brain’s gray matter
A study in Mayo Clinic Proceedings from the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases provides new evidence of an association between cardiorespiratory fitness and brain health, particularly in gray matter and total brain volume — regions of the brain involved with cognitive decline and aging.
Turmeric and the Anti-Cancer Properties of Curcumin Discussed in Research Review
The review has collected studies concerning the anticancer potential of curcumin against the most widespread cancers and also describing the molecular mechanisms of action.
What Comes First, Beta-Amyloid Plaques or Thinking and Memory Problems?
The scientific community has long believed that beta-amyloid, a protein that can clump together and form sticky plaques in the brain, is the first sign of Alzheimer’s disease. Beta-amyloid then leads to other brain changes including neurodegeneration and eventually to thinking and memory problems. But a new study challenges that theory. The study suggests that subtle thinking and memory differences may come before, or happen alongside, the development of amyloid plaques that can be detected in the brain. The study is published in the December 30, 2019, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
Direct-to-Consumer Fertility Tests Confuse and Mislead Consumers, Penn Study Shows
Direct-to-consumer hormone-based “fertility testing” for women is viewed by consumers as both an alternative, empowering tool for family planning, and a confusing and misleading one, according to the results of a new study from Penn Medicine. Findings from the small, first-of-its-kind ethnographic study reinforce the need for consumer education around the purpose and accuracy of the tests, which have seen increasing interest in recent years due to the low cost and widespread availability. The study was published in the journal of Social Science and Medicine.
Life could have emerged from lakes with high phosphorus
Life as we know it requires phosphorus, which is scarce. How did the early Earth supply this key ingredient? A University of Washington study, published Dec. 30 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, finds answers in certain types of carbonate-rich lakes.
More Chinese scientists in America are going back home
A growing number of Chinese scientists working in the United States and other parts of the world are returning to their homeland, enhancing China’s research productivity.
Diabetes can independently lead to heart failure, population study shows
Heart problems are a common development for people with diabetes. In fact, about 33% of people in the U.S. admitted to the hospital for heart failure also have diabetes. Heart failure may be the result of a co-condition, such as hypertension or coronary heart disease, but not always.
A study published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings, Diabetes Mellitus Is an Independent Predictor for the Development of Heart Failure: A Population Study, examines the idea of diabetic cardiomyopathy and heart failure from the effects of diabetes alone.
Individualized physical therapy reduces incontinence, pain in men after prostate surgery
For decades, therapy to strengthen pelvic muscles has been the standard treatment for men dealing with urinary incontinence after prostate surgery. But a new study suggests that may not be the best approach.
Study finds potential link between cardiovascular death and some types of pesticides
A new data analysis from the University of Iowa finds that people who have high levels of exposure to pyrethroid insecticides are three times more likely to die of cardiovascular disease than people with little or no exposure.
When Automotive Assembly Plants Close, Deaths from Opioid Overdoses Rise
Closing of local automotive assembly plants may lead to increases in deaths from opioid overdose, according to a study led by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts General Hospital. The findings highlight fading economic opportunity as a driving factor in the ongoing national opioid epidemic, and build on previous research that links declining participation in the labor force to increased opioid use in the U.S. The findings are published today in JAMA Internal Medicine.
Soundwaves Carry Information Between Quantum Systems
Scientists built a system with curved electrodes to concentrate sound waves.
Growth and Repair from Carbon Dioxide in Air
Scientists have created a new class of material that uses sunlight to absorb and fix carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Gut Bacteria Found to Have a Shocking Secret
Scientists studied how the bacteria transport electrons across their cell wall. The bacteria use a method that’s different from other, known electricity-producing bacteria. They also found that hundreds of other bacterial species use this same process.
Scientists Create Tiny Lasers from Nanoparticles and Plastic Beads
Researchers found a way to create lasers smaller than red blood cells.
How Cells Learn to “Count”
One of the wonders of cell biology is its symmetry. Mammalian cells have one nucleus and one cell membrane, and most humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes. Trillions of mammalian cells achieve this uniformity — but some consistently break this mold to fulfill unique functions. Now, a team of Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers have found how these outliers take shape.
How fish fins evolved just before the transition to land
Research on fossilized fish from the late Devonian period, roughly 375 million years ago, details the evolution of fins as they began to transition into limbs fit for walking on land. The new study by paleontologists from the University of…
Novel combination of antibodies leads to significant improvement in cancer immunotherapy
The simultaneous use of antibodies based on two differing mechanisms of action leads to a more effective destruction of tumors. This has been demonstrated by a study in animal models by medical oncologists and scientists at the University of Basel…
Fin-to-limb transition in vertebrate evolution
A study uncovers fresh insights into the structural changes that enabled fins to give rise to limbs during vertebrate evolution. The transformation of fins into limbs is marked by the appearance of digits, an evolutionary milestone that paralleled the loss…
California law banning sale of cosmetics tested on animals goes into effect January 1st
The California Cruelty-Free Cosmetics Act has since been replicated in other states
Brain network activity in preterm infants
Preterm infants show adult-like patterns of interindividual variability in brain network activity, a study finds. Currently, standard clinical tools to predict whether infants will later develop neurological problems are lacking. One potential approach is to develop imaging biomarkers based on…
Fewer than half of California pharmacies provide correct drug disposal info
Just 11% said their pharmacy offered a drug take-back program
Short or long sleep associated with Pulmonary Fibrosis
Scientists have discovered that people who regularly sleep for more than 11 hours or less than 4 hours are 2-3 times more likely to have the incurable disease, pulmonary fibrosis, compared to those that sleep for 7 hours in a…
Unhappy revolutionaries
Correlation between the level of happiness and the Arab Spring
Study: Children who drank whole milk had lower risk of being overweight or obese
Review analyzing almost 21,000 children suggests children who drank whole milk were less likely to be overweight or obese
The mysterious case of the ornamented coot chicks has a surprising explanation
The bright colors of the chicks of American coots help their parents choose favorites, according to a new study
Arup SenGupta awarded second Fulbright research fellowship
Water technology expert returning to India to explore new opportunities to deploy HIX-Nano to mitigate drinking water crisis in affected communities and improve wastewater recovery, reuse
MIV-711 not associated with pain reduction, but may reduce disease progression in osteoarthritis
1. MIV-711 not associated with pain reduction, but may reduce disease progression in osteoarthritis Abstract: http://annals. org/ aim/ article/ doi/ 10. 7326/ M19-0675 Editorial: http://annals. org/ aim/ article/ doi/ 10. 7326/ M19-3809 URLs go live when the embargo lifts MIV-711,…
Long-dormant disease becomes most dominant foliar disease in New York onion crops
New York is the fifth largest producer of onion bulbs in the United States, producing over 110,000 metric tons from over 2,800 hectares. Most of these onions are grown on high organic matter soils, where foliar disease management is crucial…
Juvenile ornamentation in American coots
A study examines ornamentation in juvenile American coots. Ornamental traits, such as bright-colored plumage, are known to benefit courtship and increase mating success in animals. However, the evolutionary advantage of juvenile ornamentation is unclear. To explore links between juvenile ornamentation…
Negative emotion and tobacco use
Four studies of the link between negative emotions and tobacco use that included more than 12,000 participants find that sadness, but not all negative emotions, is reliably associated with the likelihood of current smoking, relapse into smoking 20 years later,…
How do conifers survive droughts? Study points to existing roots, not new growth
Scientists can’t see underground, but computational models are providing a new way to investigate how root systems might be changing
Phosphate for life’s origin in carbonate-rich lakes
Researchers report that carbonate-rich lakes are plausible sites for the origin of life because phosphate, an essential component of key biomolecules such as RNA and DNA, can be concentrated in such lakes to the high levels needed to form such…
Learning from the bears
Grizzly bears spend many months in hibernation, but their muscles do not suffer from the lack of movement. In the journal ” Scientific Reports “, a team led by Michael Gotthardt reports on how they manage to do this. The…
Novela Neurotech showcases smart neural interface at Creative Destruction Lab
TORONTO, ON – Novela Neurotech , a MedTech company developing AI-powered wireless, “smart” neural interface systems, joins Canada’s Creative Destruction Lab to further fine-tune its health technologies to the needs of patients with difficult neurological disorders. “Our core mission is…
Drivers of plant population growth
Based on comparisons of population growth rates for 208 terrestrial plant species at different levels of environmental factors from 207 published studies, researchers report that abiotic, biotic, and anthropogenic factors have effects of similar magnitude on plant performance for both…
Pacific infiltration of Southern Ocean
A study of neodymium isotopes in coral skeletons from the Drake Passage finds that around 6,000-7,000 years ago, water masses from the Pacific Ocean infiltrated the Southern Ocean, likely due to a weakening of the Southern Hemisphere westerly winds; the…
Neurologic Drug Combined with Blood Pressure Medicine Reduces Breast Tumor Development in Mice
Adding a medication used to treat epilepsy, bipolar disorder and migraines to a blood pressure medicine reversed some aspects of breast cancer in the offspring of mice at high risk of the disease because of the high fat diet fed to their mothers during pregnancy. Conversely, this treatment combination increased breast cancer development in the offspring whose mothers had not been fed a high fat diet during pregnancy.
A fragile balance
Wind conditions influence water circulation and CO2 concentrations in the Southern Ocean
First study to compare citrus varieties with combination of metabolomics and microbiome
Citrus greening disease, or Huanglongbing (HLB), is deadly, incurable, and the most significant threat to the citrus industry. Most HLB research focuses on the tree canopy, but scientists in California studied the impact of HLB on root systems. They recently…
Scientists link La Niña climate cycle to increased diarrhea
A study in Botswana by Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health scientists finds that spikes in cases of life-threatening diarrhea in young children are associated with La Niña climate conditions. The findings published in the journal Nature Communications could…
North Atlantic Current may cease temporarily in the next century
Total collaps in the next 1,000 years unlikely
AIM-HI Accelerator Fund portfolio firm receives Virginia Catalyst funding
ROCKVILLE, MD – A portfolio start-up company of the AIM-HI Accelerator Fund has been awarded $700,000 from Virginia Catalyst to commercialize its lead cancer drug candidate. Richmond-based InterLeukin Combinatorial Therapies (ILCT) is developing unique engineered therapeutic interleukins (a type of…
Replacing one gas with another helps efficiently extract methane from permafrost
Scientists from Skoltech and Heriot-Watt University proposed extracting methane by injecting flue gas into permafrost hydrate reservoirs. Since the flue gas contains carbon dioxide, the new technology will also contributes to reduction of this green house gas in the Arctic…